Species

There are many animal species and humanoid races throughout the world of Alksheist. In roleplay, we currently have eleven roleplayable humanoid races and fourteen roleplayable dragon species. The dragons are continuously added onto, and there is a possibility that more humanoid races will be able to be roleplayed in the future.

Each race and species has its own culture, and origin story behind their making. Scientists around Alksheist have effectively created a science-based evolution timeline of the humanoid races and species, which is printed in science textbooks around the world. It is generally the summarized version of The Origin of Humanoids written by the highly acclaimed evolutionists Theobald Whitfoot and Sinad Vidovic from Seville in 1878 ME. It has been gradually added onto over the years by paleontologists, anthropologists, and several other scientists, but Whitfood and Vidovic's original claims still hold tight, withstanding the ages. Dragon species, however, are complicated.

Humanoid races are fairly easy to trace, but dragon species are a much more difficult matter. Dragons fall under the animal kingdom, and under "dragons", and diversify from there. The fossil record is largely held underneath the oceans around Alksheist, making it difficult for paleontologists to excavate fossils to learn more about dragons. Despite the origin of dragon species being unclear, the dragons of today fall into many different categories that define their physical characteristics. Many tentative evolutionary timelines have been published, but they are much more prone to change than The Origin of Humanoids. The most current -- and accurate -- timeline today is Dragon Evolution: Volume Twenty-One, written by many different paleontologists from the University of Xidwin.